. Electric traction for railway trains; a book for students, electrical and mechanical engineers, superintendents of motive power and others .. . Fig. 4.—Standard Street Car and Motive Power, Fia, 5.—Uaft Electric Motor Car. Mansfield, Ohio, 1887. HISTORY OF ELECTRIC TRACTION A Wesfcon bipolar, motor, with spocket-chain drive to an axJe, waslocated above the floor line of a 4-wheeled open car. Current was taken from anoverhead copper wire by means of an over-running, ballasted trolley, which wasattached to the car body by flexible cables. A 12x18 slide-valve engine, belted
. Electric traction for railway trains; a book for students, electrical and mechanical engineers, superintendents of motive power and others .. . Fig. 4.—Standard Street Car and Motive Power, Fia, 5.—Uaft Electric Motor Car. Mansfield, Ohio, 1887. HISTORY OF ELECTRIC TRACTION A Wesfcon bipolar, motor, with spocket-chain drive to an axJe, waslocated above the floor line of a 4-wheeled open car. Current was taken from anoverhead copper wire by means of an over-running, ballasted trolley, which wasattached to the car body by flexible cables. A 12x18 slide-valve engine, belted to anelectric generator, furnished energy, which was transmitted from 2 to 3 10-ton open excursion coaches, having a loaded weight with passengers of about60 tons, were hauled on the level, but two were a load for the curves and trial line was miles long, and contained one long per cent, grade and twosharp curves. Mr. Thomas J. Janney, superintendent of the road, recently stated tothe writer that, while the equipment was crude, it had many of the elements forsuccess. The president of the road decided that the overhead construction at curvesand the serious arcing at
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